|
Pariyatti Awareness & Fundraising Campaign Update
 We are half-way through our annual Pariyatti Awareness & Fundraising Campaign. Thus far $75,000 has been raised, with $35,000 remaining to reach our goal of $110,000.
In addition to sales revenues, Pariyatti relies on donations to: import books from around the world, reprint books, publish new titles, and convert existing material to digital formats. Pariyatti hosts the Pariyatti Learning Center, and a variety of material free of charge on the Resources section of our website. You can help support and sustain Pariyatti with a contribution.
To celebrate Pariyatti's 25th anniversary please consider setting up a recurring donation of $25 a month. You may also consider making a recurring donation of $50 a month to celebrate the past 25 years with a wish for our success over the next 25 years!
"An introduction to Vipassana: Ancient Wisdom in the Modern Universal Culture", a talk by Paul Fleischman given at University College in London, in May 2011 is now available as a free download.
 The Pariyatti Learning Center (PLC) is a place where beginners and advanced students of Pāli can explore the teaching of the Buddha. It consists of weekly online classes offered free of charge.
Today's featured sutta,The Second Simile of the Turtle, comes from the first collection of suttas presented in the Pāli course: Exploring the Path.
‘Suppose, O’ Bhikkhus, this great earth were only covered with water. And there were a man who would throw a yoke with a single hole into it. A wind from the East would make it drift to the West; a wind from the West would make it drift to the East. A wind from the North would make it drift to the South; a wind from the South would make it drift to the North. And imagine a blind turtle. It would emerge once every one hundred years. Now, what do you think? Would that blind turtle, emerging to the surface once every one hundred years, stick his neck into that yoke with a single hole? Read more...
Read the Pāli version of this sutta. Feel free to sign up for one or both courses currently offered at PLC: Introduction to Pāli and Exploring the Path.
From the Bookstore
 In the Buddha's Words
An anthology of suttas, chosen and translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi, an American-born scholar-monk ordained in Sri Lanka and former president of the Buddhist Publication Society.
Selections from the five main collections of the Pāli Canon are thematically organized into ten chapters conveying the full expanse of the Buddha's teachings, helping us to find our way "through the jungle of the suttas". The editor's introductions which precede each chapter are remarkable clarifications of the concepts relevant to these themes. They are coupled with thorough end notes that draw upon the classical commentaries of Ācariya Buddhaghosa. These expositions serve as an excellent road map to access the depth of the Pāli Canon. Read more...
Pāramī, from The Making of a Museum blog
 As the Great Beings are concerned about the welfare of living beings, not tolerating the suffering of beings, wishing long duration to the higher states of happiness of beings, and being impartial and just to all beings, therefore they give dāna to all beings so that they may be happy, without investigation whether they are worthy or not. By avoiding to do them any harm, they observe sīla. In order to bring morality to perfection, they train themselves in renunciation (nekkhamma). In order to understand clearly what is beneficial and what is injurious to beings, they purify their wisdom (paññā). For the sake of the welfare and happiness of others they constantly exert their energy (viriya). Though having become heroes through utmost energy, they are nevertheless full of forbearance (khanti) towards the manifold failings of beings. Once they have promised to do something, they do not break their promise (sacca). With unshakeable resolution (adhiṭṭhāna) they work for the weal and welfare of beings. With unshakeable kindness (mettā) they are helpful to all. By reason of their equanimity (upekkhā) they do not expect anything in return. —Visuddhimagga IX 124 Read more...
“As in the case of a blue, red or white lotus pond, some lotuses are born in the water, grow in the water, remain immersed in the water, and thrive plunged in the water; some others are born in the water, grow in the water and remain emerging out of the water, unstained by the water. Even so as the Exalted One surveyed the world with His Buddha-Vision, He saw beings with little and much dust in their eyes, with keen and dull intellect, with good and bad characteristics, beings who are easy and difficult to be taught, and a few others who, with fear, view evil and a life beyond.” —MN 26.21
|
